Over five days, there are more than 35 events as well as offsite projects, making this year’s festival as packed and diverse as ever.

There is much for audiences to engage with – listening to authors read and talk about their latest book, taking part in discussions, hearing about the newest developments in publishing in the digital age, experiencing new forms of performance poetry, participating in workshops, and much more.

Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director at the Bluecoat said: “Some of this year’s events are responding to Liverpool’s theme for 2011, City of Radicals. We look at writers who have challenged the status quo in their work, from Malcolm Lowry to Bob Marley, to a new generation of spoken word innovators and writers getting beneath the surface of the turbulent political and economic times we are experiencing.

To find out more about the events in the festival follow the links below or download the brochure here